I few weeks ago diablofans posted about some guy who had until now the highest DPS ever. Was this just a number based on his gear, or did they use some sort of recount to calculate it?

(Numbers are totally off, but this is just how they calculated it)
Lets say Azmodan on MP10 has 150 million health. If you can kill him in 50 seconds, then that means you did 3 million damage per second.

That's how all the announcements that happened on DFans happened. It started by a guy doing it in 75 seconds, then a guy beat him by doing it in 60 seconds...then a guy doing it in 50 seconds....

Everyone is using Azmodan as the huge target dummy to see your true dps on.

Originally Posted by Bahumut5

I don't want to call Boubouille and wake her up for something like this.

Recount in game will never happen. Look the state of WoW...few percent DPS difference between classes cause insane amount of crying, any attempts to balance classes bring whining of 'undeserved nerfs' and threats of unsubscribing. As long as their class isn't top by miles players aren't satisfied.
Why would Blizzard brought all this upon them again in Diablo?

Unfortunately we probably won't ever get to customize our UI or get anything like recount, but I'm surprised there is no combat log or anything that tells you how much damage you have done/got hit for (especially for pvp later).

Recount in game will never happen. Look the state of WoW...few percent DPS difference between classes cause insane amount of crying, any attempts to balance classes bring whining of 'undeserved nerfs' and threats of unsubscribing. As long as their class isn't top by miles players aren't satisfied.
Why would Blizzard brought all this upon them again in Diablo?

Pretty much this. There'd be people whining that their class doesn't do as much DPS as other classes (despite the fact that the gear levels and "gear tiers" in this game are completely different than WoW's) and there would be all sorts of elitism with DPS and such (LF MP 10 ubers, 1mil+ dps only) and yeah, it'd just be WoW all over again.

There's too many differences between D3 and WoW. DPS meters aren't required in D3. Other addons like UI modifications, yes, those would be nice. But DPS meters are just not needed here.

Originally Posted by Precursor

"Fall of therzane....." ....um what? if that woman fell , god help us it will be the second cataclysm